Please Join us for VC Office Hours with Jo Tango from Kepha Partners. Jo will be answering questions and providing insight from the VC's perspective from 3 to 5 on September 27th. Jo has invested in e-commerce and internet based companies, along with supply chain software, storage, data, and more.

There will be a sign-up sheet available day of in the Venture Cafe to reserve your time slot with Jo.

He has been a founding or first institutional investor in Azuki Systems, Bit9, ExaGrid, StreamBase Systems, Vertica Systems (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle) and VoltDB, getting involved nearly always at the company inception phase. Other investments include Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Digital Market (acquired by Agile Software), and NextCard (Nasdaq: NXCD).

Jo previously was at Highland Capital Partners for nearly 9 years, where he was a General Partner. He also spent five years with Bain & Company, where he was based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Boston, and focused on technology and start-up projects.

Jo attended Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). He is on the New England Venture Capital Association Board, and was for 10 years on the board of NECINA (New England Chinese Information and Network Association). He has served as Co-Chair of his Harvard Business School class 5th, 10th and 15th reunions and was on the leadership team for his Yale 20th reunion.

Jo is passionate about start-ups and loves working with entrepreneurs who dare to strive. Jo and his family emigrated from Indonesia with a few suitcases and $1,500.

*This event occurs at the Venture Cafe located at the Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, 4th Floor. Visitors must comply with Venture Cafe attendance policies (see http://bit.ly/vc-credo for more details.)